The rubble sitting in the rock garden in front of Horst Kalin’s home in Crawford is anything but ordinary. It’s a symbol of decades of intimidation and imprisonment, a small piece of a bigger structure wrought with fear and the loss of freedom.

Hundreds and potentially thousands of people who believe their cancer stems from working at the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production facility may finally get the help they’ve been fighting for.

Many people know the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin Wall were milestones of the Cold War. But a lesser-known drama in the decades-long tensions between the United States and its communist foes played out in Cortez.